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Addictive A.D.D. - This essay depicts the negative effects Ritalin has on a mentally challenged person.
Title: Addictive A.D.D. - This essay depicts the negative effects Ritalin has on a mentally challenged person.
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Addictive A.D.D. - This essay depicts the negative effects Ritalin has on a mentally challenged person.
Ritalin is not a drug to be trifled with. It is an amphetamine. It is a "gateway" drug that is more powerful than marijuana and can trigger an addiction in a child from which there may be no return. While many argue that Ritalin is safe, Ritalin has dangerous short-term and long-term side effects; that is the effects appear within weeks or months after initiating the drug. And yet each year Ritalin, or some related …showed first 75 words of 1521 total…
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